Mounting for vehicle-springs.



C. DE LUKACSEVICS. MOUNTING FOR VEHICLE SPRINGS. APPLICATION FILED MAY22, 1915.

Patented May 2,1916.

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'rm5 COLUMBIA PXJU IOGRAPH c 0., WASHINGTON, b. c.

5 Essex and State of New Jersey,

1. ill l CHARLES DE Application filed May 22, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES on Lunac- SEVIGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Nutley, in the county of have inand useful Improvements in of which vented new Mountings for Vehicle-Springs, the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in springs for the running gear ofautomobiles and other vehicles, and it is especially applicable to springs of the socalled cantaliver'type wherein the vehicle axle is connected to one end of the spring, and the other end of the spring and its intermediate portion are connected to the vehicle body. The objects of the invention are to provide an improved mounting for springs ofthis character whereby the flexing or bending of the spring, and particularly that produced by irregularities in the road surface, may occur freely or unhampered, thereby improving the action of the spring and avoiding undue strains-thereon; to provide an improved driving connection between the body and the spring; and to provide supplemental or shoclcabsorbing springs or mediums which will absorb the shocks or vibrations an \which the main springs are incapable of ab- *sorbing.

at be hereinafter To these and-other ends, theinvention consists in certainimprovements, and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will more fully described, the novel features being pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of the specification.

In-the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 r is a side elevation of aportion of the frame of an automobile showing the present invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the mounting which connects the spring to the vehicle frame, this mounting being shown as viewed in elevation. Fig. 3

represents a central vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the mounting as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 5 shows a modified arrangementfor connecting the spring mounting to ally to the vehicle frame.

V Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the several views.

Thepresent invention is applicable genervehicles of various kinds, but it is particularly adapted for use upon automo- MOUNTING FOB VEHICLE-$ERING-S.

Specification of Letters Patent.

hereinafter described, and

LUKAGSEVIGS, OF WEST NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY.

Patented May a, mic.

Serial No. 29,885.

biles where it is essential that the springs should absorb to the greatest degree vibra tions or shocks, due to irregularities in the road surface, and provision must be made for the transmission of driving power between the rear axle and the body of the vehicle.

fThe preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying draw ing and it is illustrated as applied to an automobile, but it is to be understood that theinvention is not restrlcted to the precise construction shown, as equivalent constructions within the scope of the claims are contemplated.

In the present instance, 1 designates the rear portion of the-frame and 2 represents one of the springs for porting the frame upon the rear axle 8. The spring 2 connects the frame and the axle upon the cantaliver principle, the rear end of the'spring being connected, at 1, to the axle, the forward end of the spring being connected tothe vehicle frame by the sup- shackle 6 which is preferably pivoted to the as shown, and the -1ntermed1ate portion of the spring is con spring and to the frame, neoted to the vehicle frame by a mounting 7. This mounting, according to the present in vention and as shown in the present instance, comprises a housing. 8 having upper and lower guides 9 and 10 formed therein and arranged in alinement, and the inner and outer sides of the housing at points between the guides 9 and 10 are formed with diametrically opposite longitudinal slots 11 and 12. Caps 13 and 1 1 are applied to the upper and lower ends-of the housing. These caps are preferably adjustable in order to permit variation of the strength of the springs to be are threaded upon the housing in the present 1nstance,-each cap is formed in its periphery with a number of notches 15, and a spring 1 is arranged to engage-in one or another of these notches to retain the desiredadjusted position. Ahead 17 is mounted to. reciprocate vertically within the housing, it having slides 18 and 19 which cooperate with the guides 9 and 10, and the head has bosses 20 and 21 which project into the slots 11 and 12 and are guided by these slots,'thereby preventing twisting or turning of the head 17 within the housing. Springs 22 and 23 are 'nterposed between the caps 13 and 14; and thehead 17, coil springs of of an automobile,

to this end they.

the respective cap in varied, as desired.

- and the vehicle body.

causes, the rocking of the tion of the spring on the supporting and driving pin 7 freely by the preferably used. and 14, the de- Asupporting and driving pin 24 is fixed in the head 17 and projects outwardly, it being rotatably or rockingly mounted in a clip or bearing 25 which is clamped or otherwise attached to the intermediate portion of the spring.

A plate 26 is preferably fitted to the pin 24 and against the outer side of the housing 8 in a position to cover the slot 11 and thereby exclude dust, dirt or mud therefrom. In Figs. l3 inclusive, the mounting for the intermediate portion of the spring is shown riveted or applied directly against the flat side of the vehicle frame,-the housing being olfset laterally fronrthe side of the frame. Fig. 5, however, shows the mounting applied to a vehicle f mounting and enables the latter to be so applied to the vehicle frame thatits center ine is in the plane of the side of the vehicle frame, or substantially so. 1 lVith the construction abovegdescribed, the weight of'the vehicle is sustained by the supporting and driving pin 24, the weight of the vehicle being transmitted to this pin through the medium of the upper spring 22, andthe weight is transmitted from the pin 24 to the intermediate portion ofthe main spring 2. The upward thrust the spring is sustainedby the axle 3. The pin 24 serves not only to sustain the weight of the vehicle, but it also serves to transmit the driving power or force betweenthe axle As the'main spring hasa rockingconnection with the pin 24,

it will be understood that the intermediate portion of the spring may rock freely on this pin as the same is flexed by irregularities in the" road surface, or from other intermediate porbeing permitted'to take place shackle 6 which providesa link connection between the spring and the body. Furthermore, the spring 22 will operate to absorb shocks which the main spring is not capable of absorbing, and the is so guided astoprov ide a substantial connection be-' tween these parts and one which will prising prevent binding thereof. Furthermore, the head 17 is so guided in its vertical movements as to provide a strong driving c011- nection between the pin 24 and the housing 8 attached to the frame.

I claim as my invention: 1. Means for connecting a vehicle spring to the body of a vehicle comprising a shock-absorbing mounting secured to the body and having a laterally projecting, upwardly yieldable, load-supporting and driving pin rockably connected to an intermediate portion of the spring.

2. Means f absorbing mounting forming a rocking, upwardly yieldable, load-supporting con nection between the body and an intermediate portion of the spring, and a shackle forming a link connection between one end of the spring and the vehicle body.

3. The combination with a vehicle body and supporting axle, of a spring having one end connected to the axle, a shackle forming a link connection between the opposite end of the spring and the vehicle body, and a shock-absorbing mounting forming a rocking, upwardly yieldable, load-support ing and tel-mediate portion of the spring and the vehicle body.

4. The combination with a vehicle body, a supporting axle, and a spring, of a mount ing comprising members relatively movable to the vehicle body portion of the spring, respectively, and a shock-absorbing spring interposed between said members.

mounting for vehicle springs commembers relatively movable vertically and connected to the vehicle body and an intermediate portion of the spring, respectively, and springs interposed between said members and operative to absorb both upward and downward relative movements between the vehicle body and the spring.

6. The combination with a vehicle body, a supporting axle, and a spring connected of a mounting con1- prismg members relatively movable verforming a rocking connection vehicle body and an intermediate part of the spring, shock-absorbing driving connection between an in- 8. A mounting for vehicle springs comprising a pair of members guided to move relatively in a vertical direction, one of said members being fixed to the vehicle body, and the other member having a load supporting and driving pin projecting laterally therefrom and provided with a rocking connection with the spring, and a resilient medium interposed between said 10 members.

9. A mounting for vehicle springs comprising a housing adapted for attachment to a vehicle body, a head guided to reciprofiopies or this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the cate vertically in said housing, shock-absorbing means interposed between said housing and head, and a load-supporting and driving pin attached to said head and having a rocking connection with the spring.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES DE LUKACSEVICS. Witnesses:

Gno. O. To'r'rnN, RUSSELL S. LEARY.

Commissioner of Eatcnts,

Washington, D. G. 

